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Sensex today: The benchmark indices are expected to open lower on Wednesday as uncertainty prevails in Karnataka as to who would form the government. Negative trend in Asian markets also impacted the sentiment. At 8:45 am, SGX Nifty was trading at 10,761, down 64.50 points or 0.60 per cent.

Sensex today: The benchmark indices are expected to open lower on Wednesday as uncertainty prevails in Karnataka as to who would form the government. Negative trend in Asian markets also impacted the sentiment. At 8:45 am, SGX Nifty was trading at 10,761, down 64.50 points or 0.60 per cent.

Meanwhile, The Congress got lesser seats than the BJP though its vote share was nearly two percentage points higher than that garnered by the saffron party in the bitterly fought Karnataka Assembly polls, according to election commission data.

Overseas, Asian markets fell after Pyongyang called off talks with Seoul, throwing a major US-North Korean summit into question, and a spike in the US 10-year Treasury yield to a seven-year high knocked sentiment on Wall Street. MSCI’s broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan was down 0.1 per cent.

South Korea's KOSPI was 0.4 per cent lower, Japan's Nikkei was down 0.3 per cent and Australian stocks edged up 0.1 per cent. On Wall Street, the Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 193.00 points, or 0.78 per cent, to 24,706.41, the S&P 500 lost 18.68 points, or 0.68 per cent, to 2,711.45 and the Nasdaq Composite dropped 59.69 points, or 0.81 per cent, to 7,351.63.